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hysteria

excessive or uncontrollable fear (= craze) state of violent mental agitation neurotic disorder characterized by violent emotional outbreaks and disturbances of sensory and motor functions

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Simple sentences

Hysteria is no laughing matter.
In order to assess the future of the stock, we must observe the nerves, hysteria, and even the digestion and weather sensitivity of each person upon whose actions this investment is dependant.

Movie subtitles

These possessions - these somnambulistic, dazed conditions - are consistent with the nervous diseases we call hysteria.
Notice how consciously this unconscious woman holds onto her bed. A person afflicted by hysteria always displays some artificial mannerisms.
Today, this strange insensitivity is considered a symptom of hysteria.
Nothing's gained by uncontrolled hysteria.
Yeah, she finally dragged it out of me when I was in bed with a 104 fever and in a state of hysteria.
Holmes is whipping up such hysteria, they'll go over this whole country.
I know, but you take a man like Holmes whipping people into hysteria it makes you wonder.
Hysteria induced by shock.
It's just a common case of hysteria.
He can't trust a person near hysteria.
I won't have any hysteria from you.
No more hysteria backstage. No more.
All this hysteria because of an impulsive excited kid and a professional manure-slinger named DeWitt.
The rumours of invading armies and mass destruction are based on hysteria and are absolutely false.
A person afflicted by hysteria always displays some artificial mannerisms.
Now, wait a minute. Nothing's gained by uncontrolled hysteria.
If a man showing your symptoms came into your clinic. wouldn't you diagnose his case as nerves shot to pieces. hysteria cause by exhaustion?
She's brought back to this house in a state bordering on hysteria.
They tested her with another dog, a tiny Chihuahua: the same hysteria.
A form of hysteria that has the characteristics of paralysis without being so.
You have before you a perfect case of hysteria.
A sort of romantic hysteria.
Well, perhaps not romantic, but a hysteria anyway, which seems to convert them from a collection of sober, intelligent, rather sentimental individuals. into a dangerous mob.
I guess she's so used to my poor patients. that everything sounds like hysteria to her.
The hysteria which has greeted the Martians claims has become a national peril. All this after the release of only three messages.
Loose a wave of religious hysteria on top of it and every crack pot and his brother will be lecturing on street corners.
It's just mild hysteria.
The whole question of this demon monster. that you think shocked Hobart out of his mind. is a perfect example of auto-suggestion and mass hysteria.
Allowing myself to be stampeded like this into a state of hysteria.
Rallying a nation of television viewers into hysteria, to sweep us up into the White House with powers that will make martial law seem like anarchy!

News and current affairs

No stoning of US embassies; no mass internet hysteria.
In recent discussions about how to combat the virus, the methodical rigor of science and medicine has given way to hyperbolic politics and public hysteria.
But in deceiving ourselves into thinking that it is a moral imperative that the state impose order, we are joining the fashionable madmen, which is when the thin whine of hysteria can be heard.
If hysteria hits world capital markets, the excitement is much more likely to come in the form of capital flight from the US.
Indeed, democracy nowadays has embraced a pop culture of rapidly passing fads; today's hysteria-generating pop group is forgotten tomorrow, and there are always more waiting in the wings.
It is then that hysteria is set loose.
My advice to them was to not get caught up in the hysteria.
In grim detail, his letter described the bloody mayhem that the slaughter brought to his hospital and the hysteria of ordinary people as they arrived to find children and loved ones dead.
In pumping up football-induced hysteria, Russian politicians - headed by then-President Vladimir Putin - took the lead.
Allegations like these have whipped up nationalism, hatred, and anti-Western hysteria, distracting Russians from Putin's culpability for their country's economic crisis.
This is factually incorrect - US government securities remain one of the safest investments in the world - but the claim serves the purpose of dramatizing the federal budget and creating a great deal of hysteria around America's current debt levels.
The anti-Japanese hysteria of the 1980's fell on fertile ground.
When people panic, they can become hysterical, and hysteria often leads to mass violence.
Holocaust Remembrance Day in Jerusalem this year again saw Israeli leaders competing with each other in feeding the gloom of the national psyche and public hysteria surrounding Iran's intentions.
Sino-American relations are susceptible to hysteria, in terms of American public opinion, and to hysterical manipulation insofar as Chinese public opinion is concerned.

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